I’m a little fried this morning, since I didn’t get home until close to 2:30am and the adrenaline wore off around 3am, which is when I finally crashed.  My eyes feel kind of like they’ve been dipped in acid.

But it was an amazing night, and I’m so glad I did what I did.  One of the local radio stations here celebrated its 25th birthday yesterday, so they shut down Disneyland for a private party with listeners, clients and friends.  For four hours last night, we had the run of the park — and when you consider that there were less than 8,000 people in a theme park that usually holds anywhere from 20-70,000, that means no lines.  It was awesome.  We had less than a 5 minute wait on all of the rides we went on, and the lines were so short that on Big Thunder Mountain and Space Mountain, we were able to come off the ride, run around and get right back on for a second time.  The first time we went on Space Mountain, there was literally no line — we walked in the entrance and all the way through it and didn’t stop until we were getting on the ride.

I will say I was disappointed in the Haunted Mansion.  It used to be one of my favorite rides, but they’ve redone it with a Nightmare Before Christmas theme… it looks totally like a promotional tool for the movie and doesn’t really have the same appeal as the ride used to have.  But Thunder Mountain was incredible (and even more fun in the dark!), and Space Mountain was way awesome especially now that they’ve redone the ride.  I hadn’t been on Pirates of the Caribbean since they’d redone it to include Captain Jack Sparrow and other elements from the movies, but it was cool to see that again. 

As always, a few pictures of the revelry are available here.  Now I need to see about a giant vat of coffee…